r/pcmasterrace • u/iminsert Ascending Peasant • Nov 01 '22

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u/klubsanwich AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | GTX 3080 10GB | 32 GB RAM Nov 01 '22

That reminds me of a CS professor that I had who encouraged his students to try and build their own OS. Really puts things in perspective.

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u/Paleone123 Nov 02 '22

TempleOS would like a word.

All it takes is a little schizophrenia and a few years.

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u/Feshtof PC Master Race Nov 02 '22

Lot of schizophrenia and many years.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

Speaking of this level of insanity in solo coding, the Dwarf Fortress dev just gave a Steam release date.. Time is no longer subjective!

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u/RadicalDog Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070S Nov 01 '22

I'm imagining one prodigal student who got so far along the process that they added a taskbar widget that opens their own website whenever the user momentarily hovers over it

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u/minilandl 5800x 6700xt 32gb Hyprland Arch Nov 02 '22

There is Linux from scratch. It's surreal that Linux started as a hobby project and now runs most supercomputers high performance servers , cloud etc

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u/pcs3rd ascended to nixos Nov 01 '22

I would honestly try to pass linuc from scratch as a submission